For six days in September, 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the country's ...

Early in his papacy, Francis made a declaration that now appears prophetic: “I want a mess.” ...

He was not much older when he dazzled Pope Paul V ... designed in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, the enormous marble sculptures for which the artist is best known are for all ...

Pope Francis is dead at 88. His legacy includes an embrace of contemporary art, such as the first papal visit to the Venice Biennale.

Church workers prepare an ornament depicting Pope Francis ahead of a mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, ...

Kevin Farrell is the camerlengo, or acting head of the Vatican, until a new pope is elected. Here's what to know about Farrell, who was born in Ireland and spent much of his career in the U.S.

Papal experts have lauded the Oscar-nominated film as one of the more accurate depictions of the closed-door Vatican ...

At the end of a pope's reign, a secret vote takes place at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, Rome. Here is the election ...

Francis was a deeply religious child in Buenos Aires. The first pontiff from Latin America tried to create a more welcoming ...

(photo: Victoria Isabel Cardiel/EWTN News / EWTN) Kristina Millare/CNA Vatican April 15 ... 29, 2019, Pope Francis blessed that statue on the occasion of the Church’s 105th World Day of Migrants ...

A new Vatican ... sculpture — also located within St. Peter’s Square — which depicts 140 migrants of different ethnicities and nationalities standing on a boat. On Sept. 29, 2019, Pope ...